Have You Had Experience Being Working Poor?

[Kilgore]

11. Very hard three years

Worked my job, a second job and a weekend job delivering pizza. Did that for just over a year until I improved my skill set and was able to move up in my primary job and dropped my weekend job.

By three years in, I was just down to the main job.

Our family, wife and three kids, lived tight. The saying about eating only beans and rice really did apply to us during that period. One time we had some extra grocery money and treated the kids to something special, Fruit Loops cereal. They acted like Santa himself arrived.

Those were good times looking back on it. Made us closer as a family and taught the kids a great lesson which we see in their lives today.